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First thanks go toartificial intelligence, but the merits of the dizzying growth that Nvidia is experiencing in recent years are different and spread across 31 years of targeted choices and strategies. With that always necessary pinch of luck. The semiconductor giant founded in Silicon Valley in 1993 celebrated on June 18th the milestone of becoming the most valuable company in the world. With a 3.5 percent jump in the value of its shares, it achieved a capitalization of 3,332 billion dollarssurpassing Apple and finally also Microsoft. Capitalization which has recorded unprecedented growth: less than two years ago it was equal to 300 billion. In 2024 alone, the stock surged 180 percent, thanks to exponentially growing demand for chips with enough computing power to train the language models that are the brains of generative artificial intelligence. Estimates say they are the basis for 80 percent of the world’s data centers. Open AI, Microsoft, Amazon, Google: they are all Nvidia customers. Which gets talked about also thanks to its CEO, the “rock star” Jensen Huang. Already ready to drive the next one «Industrial Revolution» which will unlock opportunities for «100 trillion dollars», as he said at the inauguration of Computex in Taiwan, the island where he was born.